"No-Pledge of Allegiance" Debate Organizers Cite Death Threats, Criticize Beck

[RamboLiberal]

The moderator and the organizer of an Illinois congressional debate who were criticized for not allowing the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited said they have received death threats and plan to go to law enforcement authorities to file complaints.

Each also blamed Fox News host Glenn Beck for stirring up opposition to their work by criticizing the incident and attacking them by name on his Fox News program, which they say has sparked an increase in hateful e-mails and phone calls since then.

"Our webmaster has stopped forwarding the e-mails to me because they have become so ugly," said Jan Czarnik, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Illinois, which sponsored the Oct. 20 forum in Evanston. "I am getting death threats and I am taking it to our local FBI. There are postings on Fox News' Facebook page that include threats on my life."

The forum included Republican and Tea Party candidate Joe Walsh, Incumbent Democrat Melissa Bean and Green Party candidate Bill Scheurer.

Kathy Tate-Bradish, the moderator for the debate, did not want to be quoted, but confirmed she has also been threatened by phone.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010280025

New Tea Party tactic - watch it pop up at more debates. Repuke congressman Tim Murphy pulled this crap Tuesday night & had talk radio here trashing the League of Women Voters. Bet the people here will get death threats as well from the Beck crazed tea partiers.

I'm betting this shit could very well turn up in the 2012 debates. Way to embarass President Obama and paint him and Dems as unpatriotic!

[Angry Dragon]

1. Please explain something to me

These people go around saying that their god is above all
man-made laws and they want a country under god.
And then they get all upset about not saying a pledge
to this ungodly country.

Which do they want??

[Ian David]

2. Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers

Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9389907&mesg_id=9389907

[AsahinaKimi]

3. The new Teahadist meme.. Do what we want ..

Or we will threaten you with DEATH. VIOLENCE is the only way of the Tea Party. Maybe those who consider themselves leaders of the Tea party should be seriously confronted and given the choice to tell their people to cool their jets, or face legal consequences.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. If we could just find some simple visual way for people to demonstrate their patriotic allegiance

Maybe something on the body... like the arm. That wraps around. Yeah, a band, an armband. That would work. And maybe a good stiff salute.

Then we would be SURE to know who loves this country, for realz!

[surrealAmerican]

5. It sounds like the whole thing was a set up.

They were looking for some reason to be against the League of Women Voters (other than their candidates looking stupid when they debate), so they came up with this silly idea of insisting on the pledge.

[RamboLiberal]

6. You're damn right it is a setup and watch for it to escalate

Repuke Tim Murphy pulled this Tuesday night in Pittsburgh area and was rewarded with a top of fold front page story today. Then a trashing of the LOWV by local talk host Marty Griffin on KDKA radio. I came in fuming this morning after listening to him on my drive in.

At least the evening host Robert Mangino is taking Murphy to task calling it a stunt and is getting beat up by the Tea bagger listeners.


A nationwide conservative outcry about the Pledge of Allegiance at political debates touched down in Peters this week, when a crowd at an 18th District congressional forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters charged ahead with the pledge when it was not on the league's agenda.

U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, and Democrat Dan Connolly were about to give their opening remarks at a debate at Peters Middle School Tuesday when Mr. Murphy asked the moderator if the pledge was being recited. When she hesitated, saying that was "not a usual way" the league started the forums, members of the crowd stood and recited the pledge anyway.

Former Peters Township High School principal Tom Hajzus was sitting in the front row with a 22-year-old Marine veteran wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan.

"The insensitivity, to me, was inexcusable and outrageous," said the registered Democrat and Murphy supporter. The crowd's reaction "was an American moment, that's what that was," he said.



Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10301/1098683-455.stm#ixzz13hJlJkFX

[gratuitous]

7. I guess that "with liberty and justice for all" ending needs a little tweaking

Oh well, it's just a quaint old thing anyway.

[madrchsod]

8. the league has been around since 1920....that`s right 1920.

what a big old pile of bullshit


the league will be around long after these right wing goons pass away into history.